Year (''' MCMXXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
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- January 3 - Sergio Leone , Italian film director (d. 1989 )
- January 6 - Babrak Karmal , third President Of Afghanistan (d. 1996 )
- January 9 - Brian Friel , Irish dramatist
- January 15 - Martin Luther King Jr. , American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968 )
- January 17 - Jacques Plante , Canadian hockey player (d. 1986 )
- January 20 - Fireball Roberts , American race car driver (d. 1964 )
- January 23 - John Charles Polanyi , Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- January 26
- --- Gordon Solie , American wrestling commentator
- --- Jules Feiffer , American cartoonist and writer
- January 28
- --- Acker Bilk , American jazz clarinetist
- --- Claes Oldenbourg , Swedish sculptor
- January 27 - Gastón Suárez , Bolivian novelist and dramatist (d. 1984 )
- January 31
- --- Rudolf Mössbauer , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- --- Jean Simmons , English actress
- February 5
- --- Luc Ferrari , French composer (d. 2005 )
- --- Fred Sinowatz , Austrian politician
- February 6 - Pierre Brice , French actor
- February 14 - Vic Morrow , American actor (d. 1982 )
- February 15 - Graham Hill , English race car driver (d. 1975 )
- February 17
- --- Chaim Potok , American rabbi and author (d. 2002 )
- --- Patricia Routledge , English actress
- February 18 - Len Deighton , British author
- February 22 - James Hong , Chinese actor
- February 28
- --- Hayden Fry , American football coach
- --- Frank Gehry , Canadian-born architect
- March 1 - Georgi Markov , Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978 )
- March 4
- --- Bernard Haitink , Dutch conductor
- --- Josep Mestres Quadreny , Catalan composer
- March 9 - Desmond Hoyte , Prime Minister and President Of Guyana (d. 2002 )
- March 17 - Peter L. Berger , Austrian-born sociologist
- March 23 - Sir Roger Bannister , British runner
- April 1
- --- Milan Kundera , Czech-born author
- --- Bo Schembechler , American football coach (d. 2006 )
- April 5 - Ivar Giaever , Norwegian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 6
- --- André Previn , German-born pianist, composer, and conductor
- --- Keijo Liinamaa , prime minister of Finland (d. 1980 )
- April 8 - Walter Berry , Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000 )
- April 9 - Fred Hollows , Ophthalmologist (d. 1993 )
- April 10 - Max Von Sydow , Swedish actor
- April 17 - Michael Forest , American actor
- April 18 - Peter Jeffrey , British actor (d. 1999 )
- April 24 - Rajkumar , Indian singer (d. 2006 )
- May 4
- --- Audrey Hepburn , Belgian actress (d. 1993 )
- --- Emilio Enrico Belén , Spanish painter and poet
- --- Sydney MacDonald Lamb , American linguist
- May 5 - Joel Moseley , Dutch football coach
- May 6 - Paul Lauterbur , American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- May 8 - Miyoshi Umeki , Japanese actress (d. 2007 )
- May 10 - Antonine Maillet , Canadian author
- May 14
- --- Gump Worsley , Canadian hockey player
- --- Henry McGee , English actor
- May 21 - Heinz Holliger , Swiss oboist
- May 25 - Beverly Sills , American soprano (d. 2007 )
- June 1 - Nargis , Indian actress (d. 1981 )
- June 2 - Norton Juster , American author and architect
- June 3 - Werner Arber , Swiss microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- June 6 - Sunil Dutt , Indian actor and politician (d. 2005 )
- June 10 - Harald Juhnke , German entertainer (d. 2005 )
- June 12
- --- Brigid Brophy , English author (d. 1995 )
- --- Anne Frank , German-born diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945 )
- June 13 - Alan Civil , English French horn player (d. 1989 )
- June 16 - Ramon Bieri , American actor (d. 2001 )
- June 17 - Tigran Petrosian , Russian chess player (d. 1984 )
- June 18 - Jürgen Habermas , German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism.
- June 21 - Abdel Halim Hafez , Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977 )
- June 23 - June Carter Cash , American singer (d. 2003 )
- June 26 - Milton Glaser , American graphic designer
- June 29 - Oriana Fallaci , Italian journalist and writer (note - some sources indicate July 24 as date of birth; d. 2006 )
- July 1 - Gerald Edelman , American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- July 2 - Imelda Marcos , First Lady of the Philippines
- July 4 - Bill Tuttle , baseball player
- July 5 - Tony Lock , English cricketer (d. 1995 )
- July 9 - King Hassan II Of Morocco (d. 1999 )
- July 11 - Hermann Prey , German bass-baritone (d. 1998 )
- July 13 - Sofia Muratova , Soviet gymnast
- July 18
- --- Dick Button , American figure skater
- --- Screamin' Jay Hawkins , American musician (d. 2000 )
- July 25 - Somnath Chatterjee , Indian politician
- July 26 - Alexis Weissenberg , Bulgarian-born pianist
- July 28 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , wife of John F Kennedy (d. 1994 )
- July 31 - Lynne Reid Banks , British author
- August 1 - Hafizullah Amin , second President Of Afghanistan (d. 1979 )
- August 8 - Ronald Biggs , British criminal
- August 9 - Abdi İpekçi , Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights (d. 1979 )
- August 16
- --- Helmut Rahn , German footballer (d. 2003 )
- --- Bill Evans , American jazz pianist (d. 1980 )
- August 21 - X. J. Kennedy , American poet
- August 24 - Yasser Arafat , Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2004 )
- August 26 - Maurice Tempelsman , Belgian diamond merchant and financier
- August 28 - Istvan Kertesz , Hungarian conductor (d. 1973 )
- August 29 - Thom Gunn , British poet (d. 2004 )
- September 1 - Anne Ramsey , American actress (d. 1988 )
- September 3 - James J. Bulger , FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive
- September 4 - Thomas Eagleton , American senator (d. 2007 )
- September 5
- --- Bob Newhart , American comedian and actor
- --- Andrian Nikolayev , cosmonaut (d. 2004 )
- September 6 - Yash Johar , Indian film producer (d. 2004 )
- September 8 - Christoph Von Dohnanyi , German conductor
- September 9 - Claude Nougaro , French singer (d. 2004 )
- September 15
- --- Eva Burrows , General of The Salvation Army
- --- Murray Gell-Mann , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 20 - Anne Meara , American comedienne and actress
- September 21 - Bernard Williams , British philosopher (d. 2003 )
- September 25
- --- Ronnie Barker , British comedian (d. 2005 )
- --- Barbara Walters , American journalist
- October 7 - Robert Westall , British author (d. 1993 )
- October 11 - Martha Newberry/Read 1957 murder victum
- October 12
- --- Robert Coles , American psychologist and author
- --- Magnús Magnússon , Icelandic-born British television presenter (d. 2007 )
- October 14 - Yvon Durelle , Canadian boxer
- October 16 - Fernanda Montenegro , Brazilian actress
- October 21 - Ursula K. Le Guin , American author
- October 22 - Lev Yashin , Soviet footballer (d. 1990 )
- October 24
- --- George Crumb , American composer
- --- Yordan Radichkov , Bulgarian writer and playwright (d. 2004 )
- October 28 - John Hollander , American poet
- October 29 - Yevgeny Primakov , Russian politician and a former Prime Minister of Russia.
- November 2
- --- Rachel Ames , American actress
- --- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar , President Of Pakistan
- --- Richard E. Taylor , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 4 - Doris Roberts , American actress
- November 7 - Eric R. Kandel , Austrian-born neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- November 8 - Lal Krishna Advani , Indian politician
- November 9 - Imre Kertesz , Hungarian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 11 - LaVern Baker , American singer (d. 1997 )
- November 12 - Grace Patricia Kelly , American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982 )
- November 13 - Fred Phelps , leader of the Westboro Baptist Church
- November 15 - Edward Asner , American actor
- November 19 - Norman Cantor , Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004 )
- November 30 - Dick Clark , American television entertainer
- December 6 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt , German-born conductor
- December 9 - Bob Hawke , twenty-third Prime Minister Of Australia
- December 16
- --- Nicholas Courtney , British actor
- --- James Moore , British author
- December 17 - Jacqueline Hill , British actress (d. 1993 )
- December 23 - Chet Baker , American jazz musician (d. 1988 )
- December 25 - Stuart Hall , British radio and television presenter
- December 28
- --- Brian Redhead , English journalist and broadcaster (d. 1994 )
- --- Terry Sawchuk , Canadian hockey player (d. 1970 )
- January 5 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov , Grand Duke of Russia (b. 1856 )
- January 13 - Wyatt Earp , American gunfighter (b. 1848 )
- January 30 - La Goulue , French dancer (b. 1866 )
- February 8 - Maria Christina Of Austria , Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858 )
- February 12 - Lillie Langtry , British singer and actress (b. 1853 )
- February 14 - Tom Burke , American runner (b. 1875 )
- March 1 - Royal H. Weller , American politician (b. 1881 )
- March 5 - David Dunbar Buick , Scottish-American inventor
- March 12 - Asa Griggs Candler , American businessman and politician (b. 1851 )
- March 20 - Ferdinand Foch , French commander of Allied forces in World War I (b. 1851 )
- April 4 - Karl Benz , German automotive pioneer (b. 1844 )
- April 24 - Caroline Rémy , French feminist (b. 1855 )
- May 21 - Archibald Primrose , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1847 )
- June 8 - Bliss Carman , Canadian poet (b. 1861 )
- June 11 - William Dickson Boyce , American entrepreneur and founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1858 )
- June 16 - Bramwell Booth , General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856 )
- June 28 - Edward Carpenter , English poet (b. 1844 )
- July 15 - Hugo Von Hofmannsthal , Austrian writer (b. 1874 )
- August - Mary MacLane , Canadian feminist writer (b. 1881 )
- August 3 - Thorstein Veblen , Norwegian-born economist (b. 1857 )
- August 3 - Emil Berliner , German-born inventor (b. 1851 )
- August 5 - Millicent Fawcett , British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847 )
- August 26 - Sir Ernest Satow , British diplomat and scholar (b. 1843 )
- August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung , Slovenian rocket engineer (b. 1892 )
- September 12 - Rainis , Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865 )
- September 23 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy , Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865 )
- September 24 - Mahidol Adulyadej , Thai doctor (b. 1892 )
- September 29 - Tanaka Giichi , 26th Prime Minister Of Japan (b. 1863 )
- October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle , French sculptor (b. 1861 )
- October 3
- --- Jeanne Eagels , American actress (b. 1890 )
- --- Gustav Stresemann , Chancellor Of Germany , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878 )
- October 28 - Bernhard Von Bülow , Chancellor Of Germany (b. 1849 )
- November 6 - Prince Maximilian Of Baden , Chancellor Of Germany (b. 1867 )
- November 24 - Georges Clemenceau , Premier Of France (b. 1841 )
- December 10 - Harry Crosby , American publisher and poet (b. 1898 )
- December 20 - Émile Loubet , 7th President Of France (b. 1838 )
- December 29 - Wilhelm Maybach , German automobile designer (b. 1846 )
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